[NTLUG:Discuss] Restore owners

[Leroy Tennison]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> How can I restore ownerships on a block of files on a RHEL system?  I
> know that this question has been asked before but I couldn't find it in
> the archives.
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> IIRC, RH keeps a file that is part of the security monitoring system and
> logs the ownerships as of yesterday.  I don't remember where this is
> kept and if RH has a command that will restore the ownerships in bulk.
> If I have the file I can write my own script to get it fixed.
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> This was a case of fat fingers and trying to work faster that I think!!!
> I was 1 dir up from where I should have been and changed everything in
> /usr/lib, ugh!!
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> TIA
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> Greg Edwards
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Have you tried

chown <desired owner>[:<desired group>] *	or
chown :<desired group> *

If * is too broad then provide a more specific file specification.  You 
will have to have adequate permissions to do this.